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Steve Bell, the senior director of the economic policy project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, joined the Federal Drive to discuss what the super committee tasked with trimming trillions from the federal deficit means for federal agencies.
The GAO found the State Department had improved real-time awareness of cyber vulnerabilites, however it still has some areas to cover, according to the watchdog agency\'s latest report.
The list of members of Congress that will make up the \"Super Committee\" responsible for finding more than a trillion dollars in deficit cuts is filling out.
Longer life spans and limited interest among providers may have driven up premium costs under the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP).
David Wise, the Government Accountabilty Office\'s director of physical infrastructure issues, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the agency\'s recent report that deemed federal real property high-risk because of an overreliance on leasing. GAO said it\'s often cheaper to actually own property rather than renting.
Dan Adcock is the legislative director for the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association.
The top four civilian agencies can do a better job in the planning stages for service contracts, according to a new Government Accountability Office.
A bipartisan group of congressmen have introduced legislation to let FAA employees receive back pay for the two weeks that they were furloughed. Senate Democrats have introduced a similar bill.
The Government Accountability Office says a State Department program designed to help its managers mitigate IT risks fails to provide a complete view of those risks.
Postal Service officials said they will be insolvent by the end of September unless Congress gives them more control and flexibility over their finances. The USPS board of governors met Friday as the organization reported a third-quarter loss of $3.1 billion.
IBM has protested the Veterans Affairs Department\'s multi-billion dollar information technology contract, under the Transformation 21 Total Technology (T4) program.
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told Federal News Radio he is optimistic FAA employees could be back to work as early as Monday following the two-week partial shutdown that furloughed 4,000 workers. Babbitt said the partisan fighting that sidelined the agency \"is not any way to run the world\'s greatest and safest aviation system.\"
Louis Dupart, the executive director of the FAA Managers Association, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the organization\'s fundraising activities on hehalf of furloughed feds. Congress is one step closer to approving a short-term spending measure that would end the partial shutdown at the agency.
Leon Panetta, in his first news conference as defense secretary, said a potential second round of Pentagon budget cutting, set up as a failsafe, by this week\'s debt-ceiling deal would be a doomsday scenario for the military. The additional $500 billion cut would be \"completely unacceptable,\" he added.